When Ford started shipping the Focus ST to its U.S. dealers a couple of years ago, it marked an important turning point in the company’s history: Other than the first-gen-based Focus SVT, Ford had had...

There was a time that Toyota’s involvement in the World Rally Championship was a given. Every year, some of the sport’s best drivers – world champions Carlos Sainz, Didier Auriol and Juha Kankkunen among them...

One of the hottest of hot hatchbacks in recent years was the Audi RS3, a fire-breathing five-door stuffed with turbocharged inline-five and all-wheel-drive goodness. It never came here to the U.S. (though its drivetrain did...